Absolutely Fabulous...
- Weather, Visibility, Vintage Equipment, and Good Friends... This ranks up there as one of the more fabulous-er of our dive trips. It was so sunny and warm on the surface that we barely got a chance to get cold from the diving... Temps were still in the low 40s down deep but, warm ups in between were downright balmy. We had to get under Rons tent to keep from getting fried by the hot sun!
- Above is Ron Sheriffdiver preparing to dive his Sportsways Twin 72s. You don't see THOSE every day!
- Here's Rich 50,000 with his Voit project... Original blue fiberglass backpack and harness. Original white vinyl exterior 72. The Voit 50 Fathom came from Rob's ScubaMuseum... It was a prop in the Sea Hunt forever show last March.
- Note also Rich is diving his smooth skin beaver tail front zip Sea Hunt forever wetsuit. We all dove ours on this trip.
- Above is SwimJim diving his dimple bottom Twin 38 project.
- Here's Jacob diving his rare "Green" Argonaut Kraken and Twin Aqualung 72s. He's loving that Kraken and taking a shine to the Twin 72s too.
- I brought the brats and SwimJim brought the grill... MMMM GOOD!
- Above are Bill and Drew and Jacob getting ready for the next dive.
- Ron's special set of triples are like the 500 foot diving rig seen on Sea Hunt with Leonard Nimoy. Remember how (in that episode) they tricked Leanard Nimoy into thinking Mike Nelson could dive down to the evidence with the special equipment and a "pill"... Leonard of course had to reveal his guilt.
- Here's Drew diving Ron's beautiful "Thunderball" Voit Twin 72s.
- Lots of highlights to this trip. SwimJim placed a very cool Cherub on the "Grim Reaper" rock formation at about 100 feet. Ron brought a patriotic garden plaque that we all got to sign. He, Rich, and I placed it near the 130 ft. marker right out front of the pier. Ron figured a slick way to dive his Double hose with his UDS-1. Diving conditions were perfect... Clear skies with lots of sunlight extended the visibility... At one point I was looking up from about 70 feet deep and could see the surface ripple perfectly and my buddy Rich about 30 feet above me.